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[SteminDemon13]

Steve, I am in the US. I tried slapping it in my computer hoping it would work , but that thing slapped me back and said uh uh, wrong region code biatch!

Tis funny but it said universal on the thing. I tried it in PS2, Portable DVD, regular DVD, computer DVD, but no go .

CAN WE MAKE THIS THREAD A STICKY, PLEEEEASE ?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SteminDemon13

Steve, I am in the US. I tried slapping it in my computer hoping it would work , but that thing slapped me back and said uh uh, wrong region code biatch!

Funny, my computer says it can change regions five times...then I'm stuck.

Haven't actually tried it, though.

Tis funny but it said universal on the thing. I tried it in PS2, Portable DVD, regular DVD, computer DVD, but no go .

Don't know what to say, then.

CAN WE MAKE THIS THREAD A STICKY, PLEEEEASE ?

There have been several other threads on movies, war movies, naval movies and submarine movies. None of them are stickied.

[M. Sarsfield]

Operation Pacific (1951) John Wayne stars as the XO and eventually the CO in this film. Lot's of campy, heart-warming scenes. Several shots of Typ VII u-boats when portraying the USS Thunderfish under water.

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - This movie redefined the way sub movies were made. Clark Gable plays a very determined and gruff captain and Burt Lancaster is excellent in his role as XO. Very good effects for that era.

[Ivan Putski]

Destination Tokyo (1943) Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale.

[Ivan Putski]

The Frogmen (1951) Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews

[Sailor Steve]

Up Periscope (1959); James Garner, Edmond O'Brien.

[SteminDemon13]

The Eternal Sea - 1955

Flat Top - 1952, Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson

[Forsaken]

The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Directed by John McTiernan. With Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn

[Captain Vlad]

The Sand Pebbles (1966) Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna. Directed by Robert Wise. One of those angsty '60's movies about a Yangtze River gunboat in the 1920's. Stays with you.

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) William Holden, Grace Kelly, Mickey Rooney. Directed by Mark Robson. Korean War Navy pilots, the soapiness one expects from the decade it was made, and the rare downer ending that feels honest.

[Platapus]

Crash Dive 1945

Tyrone Power
Dana Andrews
Ann Baxter

Not so much a sub story but a love story and a pretty awful one at that.

Dana Andrews is the Captain of a submarine. Tyrone Power is the new exec.

Dana is engaged to Ann. Tyrone puts the smooth moves on Ann. Why does Ann not tell Tyrone that she is engaged? Because she is a tramp!

Both men are doing the same woman and guess what, they soon find out they are both doing the same tramp. Tensions mount and finally Dana gives the tramp to Tyrone

Thats pretty much the movie.

Oh by the way, there are a few scenes on a Sub.

Friends don't let friends watch "Crash Dive"

I would rather watch U-571.... twice

[Platapus]

From M. Sarsfield

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - This movie redefined the way sub movies were made. Clark Gable plays a very determined and gruff captain and Burt Lancaster is excellent in his role as XO. Very good effects for that era.

Excellent choice!

Favourite line

Clark Gable (Captain) talking to Jack Warden (Yeoman Mueller)

Mueller, do you think I am a damn fool?

Sir?

Mr. Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster as the exec) thinks I am and I have a great respect for his opinions

Love that line

[Vortex]

I was doing some downloading and Google'ing for a list of navy movies, and came up with this topic high in the results. The thread was helpful and I am already a member here, so I thought I would necro it and write a few more entries myself.

- ***1/2 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

w/Gregory Peck. A really well produced major film that I thought captured the original personality of Forrester's Hornblower much better than the modern TV series did.

- *** In Which We Serve (1942)

w/Noel Coward. Most reviewers give this film a higher rating than I do, but I found the shoreside melodramas to be somewhat tiresome. And the British effeteness of Noel Coward with its underlying message of class superiority - as an American - rubbed me the wrong way as well. But overall, a pretty good navy movie.

- ***1/2 Action in the North Atlantic (1943) and *** San Demetrio London (1943)

Both somewhat similar stories of merchant crews going up against the submarine threat in the Atlantic. I give the edge to Bogart and AitNA, but San Demetrio is a good film too. And I bet most Americans have never even heard of it.

[Destraex]

Das Boot
Sink the Bismark
tora tora tora
midway - pretty horrible though
that new russian film about the captain in ww1 caught up in the revolution. I think it was called Admiral. Great battle scene at the beginning
U571 - the one with john bon jovi in it
Proud - think this was about destroyers
Nihonkai daikaisen - Great Battle of the Japan Sea - A must see for any fleet enthusiasts. This movie gets an A from me like das boot.
Master and commander
hornblower - another A

what I really want is a good flick about ww1 ship or sub combat. Why does everybody think ww1 was so dull?

Bridges at Toko Ri - William Holden Korean war CV flick.

In Which We Serve - RN Destroyers loosely based on the career of Louis Mountbatten as Captain D.

Under Ten Flags - The highly coloured story of Raider Atlantis.

Ironclad - cheesy TV movie from Ted Turner about the USS Monitor vs, CSS Virginia fight at Hampton Roads in 1862.

The Cruel Sea - Jack Hawkins classic from the book of the same name.

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by destraex

u571 - the one with john bon jovi in it

burn the heretic!!!!!